James McHenry, Orwigsburg, Schuylkill Co., Pennsylvania, to Thomas Moore, Baltimore, Maryland, 9 March 1817
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Also an excellent letter. McHenry remains optimistic and expands on the local economic opportunities and strategies of clockmakers, storekeepers, and grog-sellers, and relates the latter to the influx of poor and thirsty Irish immigrants into the Orwigsburg area to work on the canal. McHenry left his wife and children in Ulster but is 2 sending for them to join him; expects that his wife will bring additional capital, so they can keep and stock a store. McHenry also makes interesting remarks on religion, contrasting his (and, apparently, Moore's) former "latitudinarianism" to their newly felt need for more conventional religious faith.